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National Survey Finds Bipartisan Support for Expansive View of Rights

Heading into the 2020 election, a national survey of American attitudes toward rights and freedoms in the United States finds surprising bipartisan support by substantial majorities of Americans for ...
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Admissions & Financial Aid Blog

Read the HKS Admissions & Financial Aid blog for admissions tips and updates, information on financial assistance, reflections on the HKS student experience, and more.
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Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History

According to research conducted by Erica Chenoweth and the Crowd Sourcing Consortium, 15 million to 26 million people in the U.S. have participated in George Floyd protests. Recent research conducted ...
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Are regulations achieving their objectives? Post Implementation Reviews – why they should be done, why they aren’t done and how to get them done

Regulatory policy is often under-prioritised by governments, particularly when compared with the detailed focus associated with tax and spending measures. Even where a clear policy development process ...
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Developing a rehabilitation program that works for incarcerated people

Marcella Alsan & Arkey M. Barnett & Peter Hull & Crystal Yang, 2024. “‘Something Works” in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program," NBER Working Papers 32282, National ...
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Character and Leadership: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century

This paper is inspired by the sentiments of Winston Churchill, “The further back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” Notwithstanding all the work and intellectual efforts by ...
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Why Investing in Women Benefits us All

Road to GEM24 Podcast: Progress, Gaps, and Strategies for Women's Economic Empowerment The World Economic Forum’s global gender gap score, which measures gender parity around the world, stands at 68 ...
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The Geography of Banks in the United States (1990-2020)

We present new statistical indicators of the structure and performance of US banks from 1990 to today, geographically disaggregated at the level of individual counties. The constructed data set (20 ...
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The Use of Experiments in Health Care

Two of the best known randomized trials in health economics are described in detail in this chapter, the RAND Health Insurance Experiment and the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment. The RAND ...
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Sovereign Debt Restructuring with China at the Table: Forward Progress but Lost Decade Risk Remains

Sovereign debt restructuring deals have not been smooth sailing over the last few years. They have moved slowly, been marked by bickering between China and G7 stalwarts, and the outcomes have been ...
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Explainer: Why government shutdowns keep happening in the United States

The U.S. government shut down on October 1 as Republican and Democratic funding bills failed to reach the necessary number of votes in the Senate and efforts to prevent a shutdown failed. Government ...
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Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Fellowship

The Carr-Ryan Center’s Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program invites fellowship applications from researchers, practitioners, advocates, and defenders with a demonstrated commitment to advancing the ...